News and announcements about Soon I Will Be Invincible. Which is a book for people who think supervillains are kind of interesting and also want to read something smart and basically literate.

Monday, April 26, 2010

The Avengers, Joss Whedon, and coming infinite crisis

I wrote a short piece on the idea of Joss Whedon directing an Avengers film, for the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog. I also talked about how I liked Doctor Horrible although I don't get how Firefly was supposed to feel. I can't tell if I was a little mean about it - I had an aesthetic point to make, and a long plane ride.

"In a world where BlackBerry-carrying superheroes grace the cover of GQ, being a supervillain known as the "angriest dork in the world" isn't easy. A heartbreaking genius of staggering evil, Doctor Impossible avenges lost love, a lonely adolescence, and a plethora of foiled doomsday devices...Every comic-book cliché in this witty, stunning debut is lovingly embraced, then turned inside out."Wired Magazine